6G-DISAC: 6G for Distributed Intelligent Sensing and Communication

Deliverables

Preliminary version of the distributed ISAC architecture

It contains the first results from T2.3.

Final version of scenarios, use cases and KPIs

It contains the final results from T2.1 and T2.2.

First project management periodic report

includes the first half of the project’s technical work description and financial monitoring, at the project level and at each WP level. It will include the description of the technical contributions from each partner over the reporting period, as well as the action plan and revised risk management plans.

Dissemination, project website and Data

This deliverable will provide a detailed plan for dissemination activities of the project and details on project website and other dissemination media adopted by the project.

Initial solutions towards waveforms, sensing, communication, and DISAC

It contains the first results from WP3.

Quality plan

contains a detailed quality plan giving the project guidelines, communication practices, preparation, and delivery of progress reports, etc.

Initial specifications for protocols and orchestration solutions

It contains initial specifications of novel protocol and orchestration solutions enabling distributed and cooperative ISAC as developed in T4.1 and T4.2.

Key Components and Integration

It contains a detailed overview about the key components used in the demonstrations and on how the interfaces are designed, covering T5.1-T5.2.

Preliminary version of scenarios, use cases and KPIs

It contains the first results from T2.1 and T2.2.

Standardisation action plan

This deliverable will include the detailed plan for standardisation in 3GPP, ITU, ETSI, and possibly in other standardisation bodies as appropriate. The plan will be revised on a yearly basis if needed.

Intermediate dissemination and standardisation activity report

This deliverable will describe the status and updated plan for the project’s dissemination activities and training, PoC design, and standardisation activities carried out during the first half of the project duration.

Initial Data Management Plan

defines how data generated in the project is exploited, accessed, curated and preserved, based on the template recommended by the EC

Publications

Empirical Validation of the Impedance-Based RIS Channel Model in an Indoor Scattering Environment

Author(s): Placido Mursia, Taghrid Mazloum, Frédéric Munoz, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Gabriele Gradoni, Raffaele D'Errico, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez, Antonio Clemente, Geoffroy Lerosey
Published in: 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUCAP60739.2024.10501200

Distributed Intelligent Sensing and Communications for 6G: Architecture and Use Cases

Author(s): Kyriakos Stylianopoulos, Giyyarpuram Madhusudan, Guillaume Jornod, Sami Mekki, Francesca Costanzo, Hui Chen, Placido Mursia, Maurizio Crozzoli, Emilio Calvanese Strinati, George C. Alexandropoulos, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: 2025 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications &amp; 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT63408.2025.11037021

Localization Accuracy Improvement in Multistatic ISAC with LoS/NLoS Condition using 5G NR Signals

Author(s): Keivan Khosroshahi, Philippe Sehier, Sami Mekki, and Michale Suppa
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE

Single- and Multi-Agent Private Active Sensing: A Deep Neuroevolution Approach

Author(s): George Stamatelis, Angelos-Nikolaos Kanatas, Ioannis Asprogerakas, George C. Alexandropoulos
Published in: 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICCWORKSHOPS59551.2024.10615506

Near-field RIS-aided Localization Under Channel Non-Stationarity: A Mismatched Model Approach

Author(s): Bo Sun, Musa Furkan Keskin, Moustafa Rahal, Hui Chen, Jukka Talvitie, Henk Wymeersch, Mikko Valkama
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694423

Cooperative Sensing of Side Lobes Interference for mmWave Blockages Localization and Mapping

Author(s): Hiba Dakdouk; Mohamed Sana; Benoit Denis
Published in: 2024 Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC/6G Summit), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2405.08521

Realistic Evaluation of Impedance-Based RIS Modeling: Practical Insights and Applications

Author(s): Ayane Lebeta Goshu, Placido Mursia, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Perez
Published in: 2025 19th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUCAP63536.2025.10999979

The Interference Broadcast Channel with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces: A Cooperative Sum-Rate Maximization Approach

Author(s): Konstantinos D. Katsanos, Paolo Di Lorenzo, George C. Alexandropoulos
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694582

ELAA Near-Field Localization and Sensing with Partial Blockage Detection

Author(s): Hui Chen, Pinjun Zheng, Yu Ge, Ahmed Elzanaty, Jiguang He, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817348

Distributed Intelligent Integrated Sensing and Communications: The 6G-DISAC Approach

Author(s): Calvanese Strinat, Emilio; George C., Alexandropoulos; Giyyarpuram, Madhusudan; Sehier, Philippe; Mekki, Sami; Sciancalepore, Vincenzo; Stark, Maximilian; Sana, Mohamed; Denis, Benoit; Crozzoli, Maurizio; Amani, Navid; Mursia, Placido; D'Errico, Raffaele; Boldi, Mauro; Costanzo, Francesca; Rivet, Francois; Wymeersch, Henk
Published in: Proceedings of the Joint European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit 2024, 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/EUCNC/6GSUMMIT60053.2024.10597016

Dynamic Power Allocation in OFDM ISAC for Time of Arrival Estimation

Author(s): Ali Al Khansa, Giyyarpuram Madhusudan, Guillaume Larue, Louis-Adrien Dufréne
Published in: 2024 IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CSCN63874.2024.10849719

RIS-Augmented Millimeter-Wave MIMO Systems for Passive Drone Detection

Author(s): Jiguang He, Aymen Fakhreddine, George C. Alexandropoulos
Published in: 2024 IEEE 35th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/PIMRC59610.2024.10817446

Near-field RIS-aided Localization Under Channel Non-Stationarity: A Mismatched Model Approach

Author(s): Bo Sun, Musa Furkan Keskin, Moustafa Rahal, Hui Chen, Jukka Talvitie, Henk Wymeersch, Mikko Valkama
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694423

DMA Reception for Simultaneous Area-Wide Sensing and Multi-User Uplink Communications

Author(s): Ioannis Gavras, George C. Alexandropoulos
Published in: 2025 IEEE 26th International Workshop on Signal Processing and Artificial Intelligence for Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC66079.2025.11143306

Simultaneous Near-Field THz Communications and Sensing with Full Duplex Metasurface Transceivers

Author(s): Ioannis Gavras, George C. Alexandropoulos
Published in: 2024 IEEE 25th International Workshop on Signal Processing Advances in Wireless Communications (SPAWC), 2024
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/SPAWC60668.2024.10694467

Joint Detection and Localization with an Efficient Censoring Method for Distributed Monopulse Radars under Communication Constraints

Author(s): Yangming Lai, Shixing Yang, Musa Furkan Keskin, Henk Wymeersch, Lingjiang Kong, Wei Yi
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2025, ISSN 0018-9251
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2025.3575059

Fundamental Trade-Offs in Monostatic ISAC: A Holistic Investigation Towards 6G

Author(s): Musa Furkan Keskin, Mohammad Mahdi Mojahedian, Jesus O. Lacruz, Carina Marcus, Olof Eriksson, Andrea Giorgetti, Joerg Widmer, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3563197

Design and validation of scalable reconfigurable intelligent surfaces

Author(s): Marco Rossanese, Placido Mursia, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Arash Asadi, Xavier Costa-Perez
Published in: Computer Networks, Issue 241, 2024, ISSN 1389-1286
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.COMNET.2024.110208

Joint Detection and Localization of Multiple Moving Targets in a Distributed Radar System

Author(s): Yangming Lai, Wei Yi, Henk Wymeersch, Musa Furkan Keskin, Qiyu Zhou, Lingjiang Kong
Published in: IEEE Sensors Journal, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1530-437X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3432636

Joint Localization, Synchronization and Mapping via Phase-Coherent Distributed Arrays

Author(s): Alessio Fascista, Benjamin J. B. Deutschmann, Musa Furkan Keskin, Thomas Wilding, Angelo Coluccia, Klaus Witrisal, Erik Leitinger, Gonzalo Seco-Granados, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, 2025, ISSN 1932-4553
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2025.3533111

Multi-RIS-Empowered Multiple Access: A Distributed Sum-Rate Maximization Approach

Author(s): Konstantinos D. Katsanos, Paolo Di Lorenzo, George C. Alexandropoulos
Published in: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Issue 18, 2024, ISSN 1932-4553
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2024.3455102

3D Cooperative Positioning via RIS and Sidelink Communications With Zero Access Points

Author(s): Mustafa Ammous, Hui Chen, Henk Wymeersch, Shahrokh Valaee
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2025.3541575

RiLoCo: An ISAC-oriented AI Solution to Build RIS-empowered Networks

Author(s): Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Henk Wymeersch, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2025, ISSN 1536-1276
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2025.3564832

COLoRIS: Localization-Agnostic Smart Surfaces Enabling Opportunistic ISAC in 6G Networks

Author(s): Guillermo Encinas-Lago, Francesco Devoti, Marco Rossanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Marco Di Renzo, Xavier Costa-Pérez
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Issue 24, 2025, ISSN 1536-1233
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2025.3556326

Echoes: An Open RAN-Enabled System for Indoors Localization Using Smart Surfaces

Author(s): Pau Baguer; Salvat Lozano, Josep Xavier; Encinas-Lago, Guillermo; Mursia, Placido; Municio, Esteban; Rossanese, Marco; Sciancalepore, Vincenzo; Costa-Pérez, Xavier
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2025.3603832

6G: the catalyst for artificial general intelligence

Author(s): Emilio Calvanese Strinati
Published in: Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering, 2024, ISSN 2948-1201
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.1038/S44287-024-00090-1

Joint Detection and Localization of Multiple Moving Targets in a Distributed Radar System

Author(s): Yangming Lai, Wei Yi, Henk Wymeersch, Musa Furkan Keskin, Qiyu Zhou, Lingjiang Kong
Published in: IEEE Sensors Journal, Issue 24, 2024, ISSN 1530-437X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3432636

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces in 6G Radio Localization: A Survey of Recent Developments, Opportunities, and Challenges

Author(s): Anum Umer, Ivo Müürsepp, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2025, ISSN 1553-877X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2025.3536517

Multi-RIS-Assisted 3D Localization and Synchronization via Deep Learning

Author(s): Alireza Fadakar, Maryam Sabbaghian, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, Issue 5, 2025, ISSN 2644-125X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/OJCOMS.2024.3399605

Joint Bistatic Positioning and Monostatic Sensing: Optimized Beamforming and Performance Tradeoff

Author(s): Yuchen Zhang, Hui Chen, Pinjun Zheng, Boyu Ning, Hong Niu, Henk Wymeersch, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2025, ISSN 2332-7731
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TCCN.2025.3578477

Toward Distributed and Intelligent Integrated Sensing and Communications for 6G Networks

Author(s): Emilio Calvanese Strinati, George C. Alexandropoulos, Navid Amani, Maurizio Crozzoli, Giyyarpuram Madhusudan, Sami Mekki, Francois Rivet, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Philippe Sehier, Maximilian Stark, Henk Wymeersch
Published in: IEEE Wireless Communications, Issue 32, 2025, ISSN 1536-1284
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MWC.001.2400056

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces for 6G: Emerging Hardware Architectures, Applications, and Open Challenges

Author(s): Ertugrul Basar, George C. Alexandropoulos, Yuanwei Liu, Qingqing Wu, Shi Jin, Chau Yuen, Octavia A. Dobre, Robert Schober
Published in: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 2024, ISSN 1556-6072
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/MVT.2024.3415570

Six Integration Avenues for ISAC in 6G and Beyond

Author(s): Nuria González-Prelcic, Dario Tagliaferri, Musa Furkan Keskin, Henk Wymeersch, Lingyang Song
Published in: IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, Issue 20, 2025, ISSN 1556-6072
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MVT.2025.3529403

Spatial Multiplexing in Near-Field Line-of-Sight MIMO Communications: Paraxial and Non-Paraxial Deployments

Author(s): Juan Carlos Ruiz-Sicilia, Marco Di Renzo, Placido Mursia, Aryan Kaushik, Vincenzo Sciancalepore
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2024, ISSN 2473-2400
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TGCN.2024.3418842

Multicarrier ISAC: Advances in waveform design, signal processing, and learning under nonidealities

Author(s): Visa Koivunen, Musa Furkan Keskin, Henk Wymeersch, Mikko Valkama, Nuria González-Prelcic
Published in: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Issue 41, 2025, ISSN 1053-5888
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2024.3420492

Open Experimental Measurements of Sub-6GHz Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

Author(s): Marco Rossanese, Placido Mursia, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Arash Asadi, Xavier Costa-Perez
Published in: IEEE Internet Computing, Issue 28, 2024, ISSN 1089-7801
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/MIC.2024.3376772

Sustainability in SNS JU Projects - Targets, Methodologies, Trade-offs and Implementation Considerations Towards 6G Systems

Author(s): Rezaki, Ali; Trichias, Konstantinos; Mesodiakaki, Agapi; Gavras, Anastasius; Aseeva, Anna; Berardinelli, Gilberto; Osman, Hassan; Gutiérrez Terán, Jesús; Petersen, Katrina; Gramaglia, Marco; Katz, Marcos; Bezzi, Margot; Ghoraishi, Mir
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.15555293

Towards 6G Architecture: Key Concepts, Challenges, and Building Blocks

Author(s): Gramaglia, Marco, Bulakci, Ömer, Li Xi, Gavras Anastasius, Ericson Mårten, Kerboeuf Sylvaine, Larrabeiti David, Ghoraishi Mir, Mesodiakaki Agapi, Koumaras Harilaos, Robitzsch Sebastian, Asensio Garriga, Rodrigo Skarmeta, Gómez Antonio, Tsolkas, Dimitris
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Zenodo

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